public inbox for netdev@vger.kernel.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay•com>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz•org>
Cc: Igor M Podlesny <for.poige+bugzilla.kernel.org@gmail•com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>,
	bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla•kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@bugzilla•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 13760] New: 2.6.30 kernel locks up with pppoe in 	back trace (regression)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:30:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6EEF69.1050001@cosmosbay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A6ECA3A.4050309@openvz.org>

Pavel Emelyanov a écrit :
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> Igor M Podlesny a écrit :
>>> [...]
>>>> Could have been a problem in net core, perhaps.
>>>>
>>>> Below is a ppp fix from 2.6.31, but it seems unlikely to fix your problem.
>>>>
>>>> It would help if we could see that trace, please.  A digital photo
>>>> would suit.
>>> 	Here it is:
>>>
>>> 		http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=22516
>>>
>>> 	(It's 2.6.30.3)
>>> 	
>> Looking at this, I believe net_assign_generic() is not safe.
>>
>> Two cpus could try to expand/update the array at same time, one update could be lost.
>>
>> register_pernet_gen_device() has a mutex to guard against concurrent
>> calls, but net_assign_generic() has no locking at all.
>>
>> I doubt this is the reason of the crash, still worth to mention it...
>>
>> [PATCH] net: net_assign_generic() is not SMP safe
>>
>> Two cpus could try to expand/update the array at same time, one update
>> could be lost during the copy of old array.
> 
> How can this happen? The array is updated only during ->init routines
> of the pernet_operations, which are called from under the net_mutex.
> 
> Do I miss anything?
> 

Oops, I missed the obvious "BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&net_mutex));"

Sorry for the noise and untested patch as well :)

>> Re-using net_mutex is an easy way to fix this, it was used right
>> before to allocate the 'id'
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>
>> ---
>>
>> diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
>> index b7292a2..9c31ad1 100644
>> --- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
>> +++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
>> @@ -467,15 +467,17 @@ int net_assign_generic(struct net *net, int id, void *data)
>>  	BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&net_mutex));
>>  	BUG_ON(id == 0);
>>  
>> +	mutex_lock(&net_mutex);

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-28 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-13760-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2009-07-22 20:45 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 13760] New: 2.6.30 kernel locks up with pppoe in back trace (regression) Andrew Morton
2009-07-23  6:39   ` Igor M Podlesny
2009-07-23  7:01     ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-23 16:15       ` David Miller
2009-07-23 17:51         ` Andrew Morton
2009-07-23 17:53           ` David Miller
2009-07-23 19:11             ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-07-25  3:33               ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-25  4:41                 ` Igor M Podlesny
2009-07-28  6:40       ` Igor M Podlesny
2009-07-28  8:44         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-28  9:51           ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-07-28 12:30             ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2009-07-28 12:36               ` [PATCH] net: net_assign_generic() fix Eric Dumazet
2009-07-28 13:03                 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2009-07-28 13:16                   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-28 13:22                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-28 13:47                       ` [PATCH] pppol2tp: calls unregister_pernet_gen_device() at unload time Eric Dumazet
2009-07-28 14:29                         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-07-28 17:46                         ` [PATCH] pppoe: fix race at init time Eric Dumazet
2009-07-28 18:48                           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-07-29  3:55                             ` Igor M Podlesny
2009-07-29  4:33                               ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-29 14:46                               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-08-12 23:40                                 ` David Miller
2009-08-14 16:42                                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-07-29  9:43                           ` [PATCH] pppoe: fix /proc/net/pppoe Eric Dumazet
2009-07-30 21:19                             ` David Miller
2009-08-02 19:28                         ` [PATCH] pppol2tp: calls unregister_pernet_gen_device() at unload time David Miller
2009-08-02 19:27                     ` [PATCH] net: net_assign_generic() fix David Miller
2009-07-23 16:14     ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 13760] New: 2.6.30 kernel locks up with pppoe in back trace (regression) David Miller

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4A6EEF69.1050001@cosmosbay.com \
    --to=dada1@cosmosbay$(echo .)com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation$(echo .)org \
    --cc=bugme-daemon@bugzilla$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=davem@davemloft$(echo .)net \
    --cc=for.poige+bugzilla.kernel.org@gmail$(echo .)com \
    --cc=netdev@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=paulmck@linux$(echo .)vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=xemul@openvz$(echo .)org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox